Stop spreading FUD. As far as is known there is one instance of people having done that, and it was both glaringly obvious in hindsight and is not a whole lot harder.
Do not re-invent the wheel, re-use what is already there. What we are seeing here is a transition from the "genius" hacker (in reality often not even reasonably smart, but very persistent and focused) to normal engineers (engineers without morals to be sure, but history is full of them). The thing that allows this transition is the abysmally bad state of software and device security, which seems to be getting worse, not better.
Drivers here are classical greed and stupidity, and fascist fantasies of being able to snoop on everybody anywhere, anytime. There are only two outcomes: Security gets fixed (which is a major, major undertaking and requires a cultural change) or we will see a rather drastic end of the advantages of the information age for most people with just a few small elites still profiting.
Not irrelevant at all, considering that buffer overflows are still one of the main security problems in software, and they result from people that have no idea how the machine they are coding for actually works.
For all the bad coders do: Yes. There are a few that actually solve difficult tasks that need solving. For example cleaning up the security mess these bad coders routinely create or actually do things that need to be fast and reliable. That will not be automated anytime soon.
From personal observations on a lot of CS students, that is completely wrong. Quite a few highly motivated CS students fail to ever become good coders. They have the motivation but lack the aptitude.
At least to anybody that can write good code and has tried to teach others. From my experience, you can give people a few pointers, tell them when to start and how to avoid obvious pitfalls. They then neatly sort themselves in people that get it and ones that do not. From my experience, about half of CS undergraduates do _not_ get it. Which makes me suspect that in the general population, less than 10% can learn to code well.
One reason why coding is essentially self-taught in those that can do it well is that it is so extremely difficult that without doing it in your personal style, you do not stand a chance.
Seriously? Are you _that_ stupid and unaware of the facts? The thing heating up the planet is the SUN! The problem is that the CO2 prevents that energy from radiating back into SPACE.
Yes. And we have been about 70 years at trying to get it to work reliably and are still wayyyy of from making it generating enough energy to be a practical replacement for other tech.
Are the Ray Kurzweil and singularity fanbois / public masturbators off their meds again?
Really stupid people will cheer on anything that promises them things, no matter how inane. Of course, none of these miracles have ever manifested or ever will, but stupid people do not look at history or facts or what became of their earlier fetishes, they just find something new to hail as the second coming.
Humanity actually has been at this for about half a century. It is still unclear whether we will make it work to any reasonable and useful degree. Anybody talking about 3He as a real possibility has his head so far up his backside it is not funny anymore.
Obviously this is a case of "whatever lie will server so we do not have to do anything about climate change".
The thing is, the cretins that want to believe that climate change is not a real problem or not an immediate concern are so stupid that they will believe anything. This is just a symptom.
Incidentally, it is not even certain that viable Deuterium-Tritium fusion will be available this century. I certainly hope it will be, because without an abundant energy source it is curtains for human civilization and most of its members not so far in the future. I sincerely doubt that the current crop of utterly incapable "leaders" will even manage the 4 Degrees Celsius goal.
Not really. In the end, you are programming a machine through an interface. If the language makes that significantly harder or easier for you, then maybe you should not be doing this in the first place.
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For some people it is always somebody else's fault. It it not. It is yours.
Conservatives are always dumb. There is even research showing that by now, obviously not widely known.
Stop spreading FUD. As far as is known there is one instance of people having done that, and it was both glaringly obvious in hindsight and is not a whole lot harder.
Oh? Then why are people in China still able to use it? Maybe the authorities there are not trying hard to block it? Oh, wait....
Looks like somebody has trouble using Unicode correctly.
Actually, you were told "build more roads" all the time, but the city worked just fine.
I expect that will happen and the problem will get worse. People are dumb and unwilling to change, even in the face of an existential threat.
Really, read some actual CVEs sometime. Maybe then you would not write such utter nonsense.
Do not re-invent the wheel, re-use what is already there. What we are seeing here is a transition from the "genius" hacker (in reality often not even reasonably smart, but very persistent and focused) to normal engineers (engineers without morals to be sure, but history is full of them). The thing that allows this transition is the abysmally bad state of software and device security, which seems to be getting worse, not better.
Drivers here are classical greed and stupidity, and fascist fantasies of being able to snoop on everybody anywhere, anytime. There are only two outcomes: Security gets fixed (which is a major, major undertaking and requires a cultural change) or we will see a rather drastic end of the advantages of the information age for most people with just a few small elites still profiting.
Not talking about that. Your logic is broken and your statistics as well.
Not irrelevant at all, considering that buffer overflows are still one of the main security problems in software, and they result from people that have no idea how the machine they are coding for actually works.
For all the bad coders do: Yes. There are a few that actually solve difficult tasks that need solving. For example cleaning up the security mess these bad coders routinely create or actually do things that need to be fast and reliable. That will not be automated anytime soon.
Pointer arithmetic? Seriously? I taught myself how to do that way before I started my CS studies.
From personal observations on a lot of CS students, that is completely wrong. Quite a few highly motivated CS students fail to ever become good coders. They have the motivation but lack the aptitude.
At least to anybody that can write good code and has tried to teach others. From my experience, you can give people a few pointers, tell them when to start and how to avoid obvious pitfalls. They then neatly sort themselves in people that get it and ones that do not. From my experience, about half of CS undergraduates do _not_ get it. Which makes me suspect that in the general population, less than 10% can learn to code well.
One reason why coding is essentially self-taught in those that can do it well is that it is so extremely difficult that without doing it in your personal style, you do not stand a chance.
Seriously, you failed logic 101. The most basic thing is that logic cannot be applied to anything outside of a give axiom system.
You really are doing it wrong. What you claim is belief, not science and hence religion.
There seems to be something wrong with your brain.
Seriously? Are you _that_ stupid and unaware of the facts? The thing heating up the planet is the SUN! The problem is that the CO2 prevents that energy from radiating back into SPACE.
Yes. And we have been about 70 years at trying to get it to work reliably and are still wayyyy of from making it generating enough energy to be a practical replacement for other tech.
Indeed. The level of stupidity expressed is truly amazing.
In conning the stupid part of the public? Seems like it.
Are the Ray Kurzweil and singularity fanbois / public masturbators off their meds again?
Really stupid people will cheer on anything that promises them things, no matter how inane. Of course, none of these miracles have ever manifested or ever will, but stupid people do not look at history or facts or what became of their earlier fetishes, they just find something new to hail as the second coming.
Humanity actually has been at this for about half a century. It is still unclear whether we will make it work to any reasonable and useful degree. Anybody talking about 3He as a real possibility has his head so far up his backside it is not funny anymore.
Obviously this is a case of "whatever lie will server so we do not have to do anything about climate change".
The thing is, the cretins that want to believe that climate change is not a real problem or not an immediate concern are so stupid that they will believe anything. This is just a symptom.
Incidentally, it is not even certain that viable Deuterium-Tritium fusion will be available this century. I certainly hope it will be, because without an abundant energy source it is curtains for human civilization and most of its members not so far in the future. I sincerely doubt that the current crop of utterly incapable "leaders" will even manage the 4 Degrees Celsius goal.
Not really. In the end, you are programming a machine through an interface. If the language makes that significantly harder or easier for you, then maybe you should not be doing this in the first place.